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is cnn newsroom with rosemarie good to have. you with us today. 16 of donald trump's criminal hush money trial. will kick off in new york in the coming hours. trump's former attorney and fixer, michael cohen is expected to take the stand and prosecutors say it's entirely possible. they will rest their case by the end of the week cnn's zachary cohen has more prosecutors in donald trump's hush money trial are expected to call a key witness to the stand on monday, the testimony of michael cohen, trump's onetime attorney and fixer could make or break the manhattan district attorney's case against the former president. he's the only witness who will testify about trump's involvement in both the alleged decision you should to pay adult film actress stormy daniels $130,000 to keep her from going public about a past encounter with the former president ahead of the 2016 election. and the plan to reimburse cohen for advancing the money. now, tying trump to both the decision to pay daniels and the reimbursement
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is critical for prosecutors who are seeking to prove trump allegedly falsified business records to keep daniels quiet. now, the jurors have already heard a lot about cohen from other witnesses who have testified over the last three weeks and most fit has been unflattering. trump's defense attorneys will likely try to further undercut cohen's credibility during what is short of b, attends cross-examination prosecutors meanwhile, have tried to lay the groundwork for cohen's testimony by introducing documents, including email males and texts, they say backup his version of events. ultimately, the case could come down to whether or not the jury finds cohen's testimony credible, or if trump's attorneys are able to convince them otherwise zachary, cohen, cnn washington but nauta via lunar joins me now from new york. she is a criminal defense attorney and former new york prosecutor. appreciate you being with us thank you for having me. >> so a star witness in donald trump's criminal hush money trial. michael cohen set to testify in the coming hours how significant is this moment? and
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can we expect him to say anything that we haven't heard before? >> yeah, it's absolutely michael cohen is a crucial witness in this case. while we heard so much about him through other witnesses who tend to corroborate what he is expected to say. we still also know from other witnesses that he does have credibility issues. >> but they key testimony that we're going to hear from michael cohen is a about that crucial meeting in february of 2017, inside of the white house, inside of the oval office, where michael cohen is expected to testify that he and donald trump had this conversation about the hush money i was paid to stormy daniels and how he was supposed to be we paid for that hush money in order to conceal feel that testimony from ever coming into light that about stormy daniel's herself while the prosecution views cohen as a star witness who can potentially link an alleged cover-up scheme back to trump the defense paint him as a liar with no credibility, motivated
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by revenge, which narrative? >> will likely when and which has the stronger evidence so the defense is going to go with that michael cohen is obsessed with donald trump has been obsessed with donald trump four years that he's constantly posting about donald trump talking in media about donald trump. >> and he so fixated on donald trump that he has become delusional. and you heard some of this through the defense is opening statements, so that's how we know. that's where they're going with donald, with michael cohen's testimony in terms of the prosecution to prosecution is going to allow michael cohen to be the person that he is. and then later argued that this type of person is the same person that donald trump need it. and trusted to fix his problems to try to hush stormy daniels, to try to hide and conceal this from ever comic delight. and end. the prosecution's going to tie michael cohen's testimony and all the corroborating evidence,
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including meetings, telephone records that audio recording we already heard earlier in the trial, as well as statements that were made previously in order to find and tell this jury that you can find him credible. and as you can find donald trump guilty based on his testimony, but not just his testimony in total, all the testimony that they've heard throughout the defense, of course, is going to try to poke holes through it all of that and find reasonable doubt. >> and given that how important has it been for the prosecution to hear testimony first from the other witnesses before cohen presents his testimony with all his credibility issues it was a strategic move by the prosecution to try to corroborate michael cohen's testimony before bringing michael cohen to the stand because in addition to his credibility issues, you're also going to care about how he pled guilty and he are we serve time in jail as a result of his crimes? >> but that can also backfire to the defense that they
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decided to poke holes into that. because remember, he pled guilty as a result of what campaign finance violations having to deal with donald trump it was crucial for the prosecution to bring out the corroboration from other witnesses, bringing out the phone records began that crucial bank statement where allen weisselberg wrote out in detail how the payment was going to be reimbursed to michael cohen. so things like that is what's going to prepare this jury for michael cohen to testify and they're going to be able to at least have an open mind when they hear his testimony because they they know that it is going to be corroborated and has been corroborated as well and the prosecution could rest. >> it's case by the end of this week, then we hear from the defense the big question, of course, is, will we hear from trump himself? what do you think? >> i think it's highly unlikely that donald trump is going to testify now in any given case, of course, attorneys had to decisions in
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terms of strategic moves of how they present and cross-examine witnesses however, when it comes to what defendant has to buy, the only person that can make that decision is the defendant. and it is donald trump that is the sole decision of donald trump. in fact, judge merchan, at the end of the trial, will turn to donald trump and ask him what he wishes to testify and whether he had enough opportunity to determine whether you wanted to testify or not. it is highly unlikely he is going to testify because of the prior rulings by the judge where he will be allowed to be cross-examined, having to deal with the two cases, having to deal with e. jean carroll having to deal with the new york attorney general's case, have a deal with the fine said he received from judge engoron the $5,000 and a $10,000 for a not abiding by a court order. so it's just subject to so much cross-examination and he's just not a good witness that he can't control them. so i think a jury is not going to take him
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likely. so that's why i don't think he'll testify. >> we'll be watching and listening. bernardo via luna. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you thank corruption trial of us lawmaker is set to begin in the coming hours. >> prosecutors say senator bob menendez was involved in a wide ranging corruption scheme to help the egyptian and qatari governments in exchange for lucrative bribes. >> prosecutor due to say he received hundreds of thousands of dollars and items including msaa, these bans, carb and gold bars. his wife nadine, has also been charged, but will be tried separately. >> the couple have pleaded not guilty this is the second corruption trial for menendez the corruption case against him in 2017 ended in a mistrial with the jury deadlocked as israel continues to plan an
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expansion of its military operations in rafah, us officials are warning that a full israeli invasion of rafah. >> cool could lead to massive civilian deaths the us secretary of state says, it could leave a vacuum filled by chaos meanwhile, gaza's ministry of health says the palestinian death toll from the war in gaza has already passed 35,000. and the idf chief of staff said he bears responsibility before the military is failure to defend civilians on october 7 general herzi halevi spoke at israel's memorial day ceremony at the western wall in jerusalem. and how scott mclean joins us live from eastern ball. so it's got what more are you learning about the rafah evacuations? >> hi, rosemary, look, the un in israel often agree on very little. they are often publicly at odds with one another, but they agree here on the scale of the exodus 300,000 people have
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left rafah in the last week or so where they disagree is on the safety of where they're actually going ahead of unrwa and the united nations relief and works agency said that the idea of safe zones in his words is false and misleading because no place is safe in gaza israel is sending people to an area along the coast. it's calling a humanitarian zone. the area is called al mawasi. people are pitching tense there, but there's very little in the way of infrastructure to support that volume of people. there is also variable aid getting into southern gaza at this point, there had been some disagreements on precisely how many trucks it's have gotten through, but no one is claiming that it is a lot in fact, unrwa, the world food programme say that they are at risk of running out of food. very soon. if more isn't allowed in the streets of rafah are also looking increasingly bear. but according to our cnn stringer on the ground, there's a lot of people who will tell you that they are either there are unwilling or unable to leave
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because of sickness or exhaustion case in 0.1, elderly man who spoke to cnn said that he had initially decided to stay put in rafah and then later changed his mind to be with his wife and his daughter, but he has no money for a car. they're very expensive right now in rafah, given the a scarcity of them. and so he's going there on foot, but to add insult to injury on his way there, what little he had a change of clothes and some food. was robbed. >> here. he was robbed of that. other people doubt the safety of that al-muwasi humanitarian zone as israel is calling it saying that israel could strike there. anyways, here's what one man told reuters over the weekend and rafah, listen rule. we are tired and lost. we don't know where to go. and a small area, we are lost. no one is standing with us, not netanyahu nor muslims are saudi arabia nor any arab country. this is the destruction we are working as workers. i lift with
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a shirt and a torn undershirt. i'm working as a worker for ten shekels. we are suffering from the high prices from one side and the war from the other side. and we are displaced, i swear since five days, i only had one meal and us secretary of state, antony blinken did the rounds on us tv this weekend, making very publicly the case against israel's looming full-scale invasion of the rafah area. >> the us is arguing now that this will lead to chaos and a power vacuum that will very likely be he filled by hamas. usa obviously is not wanting to supply any weapons to israel for that invasion the us national security adviser jake sullivan, also had a call with his israeli counterpart and at least according to the us version of that call, rosemary israel confirmed that they were taking into account us concerns. but if you look at what's happening on the ground, it seems like a very different picture. it seems like israel is pressing ahead with its original plans,
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whether the us is on board or not all right. >> thanks to sculpt claim there with the latest and earlier i spoke with alon pinkas, a former israeli consul general in new york, and i asked him what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's next move could be as he faces increasing pressure from the us and most importantly, rosemary, he's defied the very idea of commiting op are drafting an idea for post-war gaza to right now if he, if he intends to push forward with this offensive in rafah, which remains to be seen by the way. because the scale and the scope of such an operation varies. >> and a ground invasion may not happened and may not happen and we may yet see this thing burning until found in two, three days. but if he does go on if he if he serious about his on attainable goal of
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eradicating hamas, then israel needs to essentially occupy the gaza strip indefinitely. and i don't see that happening necessarily so why is it? >> prime minister netanyahu appears to be willing to alienate his country's biggest ally by possibly invading rafah, despite calls from the us not to do so. and despite advice on how to defeat hamas without an expanded invasion of rafah well, in one word grows very politics in two words personal politics in three words, cindy, personal politics, and combine, combine these three options and you understand his modus operandi he has a vested interest in prolonging and lengthening the war he knows that if the war ends now, which by the way, rosemary, any, any hostage deal, that is accompanied by a
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ceasefire, a six-week ceasefire, and eight weeks ceasefire, four weeks ceasefire would de facto end the war. >> and if the war ends now that he cannot claim victory, he cannot claim that hamas was eradicated or that it was militarily and politically. most importantly, politically toppled still ahead, russia's president replaces his defense minister the same man who was criticized for his handling of the war in ukraine will explain after the break, plus ukrainians are evacuating areas near the country's northern border as russian forces try to open up another front in the war, a live report yesterday known as a passionate artist known for loving the outdoors known for getting everyone together no one wants to be known for cancer. but a treatment can be keytruda is
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complex the new defense minister andre belousov previously served as first deputy prime minister. the kremlin spokesperson explained why putin made the change during a media call on sunday mentioned just a few, wouldn't him up pulley boy today on the battlefield, those who are more open for innovations open towards a quick implementation of the innovations within that is way too natural than on the current stage, the president has taken the decision for a civilian to be in charge of the ministry of defense it also highlighted the country's rising military spending, saying it's approaching levels last sandro in the cold war at least 15 people are dead after ukraine bomb the russian city of belgorod on sunday, according to russian state media rescuers are trying to dig out any survivors after a high-rise apartment building was hit, russian authorities say the number of casualties will likely rise. >> belgorod borders ukraine's
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kharkiv region. were intense battles between russian and ukrainian forces are underway russia claims to have captured four more villagers in the kharkiv region after launching a surprise cross-border attack on friday, your army chief says the situation on the northern front has significantly worsened, but he did not comment on russia's claims, which cnn cannot confirm, independent simply, ukrainian police officers also evacuated residents from a city in the kharkiv region on sunday as russian forces pushed in ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy says, this is a new wave of counteroffensive actions by russia. and joining us now is cnn's clare sebastian live in london so clear how significant is this announcement from putin that he is replacing his defense minister with a civilian. and what might that signal yeah, i think it signals a real prioritization.
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>> rosemarie of the economics of this war, of the fact that it is certainly in the words of the nita is actually general a war of industrial duction. russia needs to keep that industrial production at full throttle in order to maintain its edge in the face of ukraine. now about to receive more western aid. and this is why we see sergei shoigu. i think one reason replaced by the civilian and economist by training a former economy minister and first deputy prime minister bill. elusive, who is sort of gray suited serious speaking, close ally of vladimir putin. so that is one thing i think obviously this comes at a point where russia is more confident on the battlefield. it has been making gains, it's in the middle really of its most significant cross-border push. >> in many, many months that i think masks the fact that they are dealing with the war now in its third year where it was supposed to last just a few weeks maximum. so i think that is another reason perhaps that sergei shoigu was seen as a marked man that on top of
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course, of a corruption scandal in his ministry, a top deputy arrest did just under three weeks ago. that is something that the russian government tends to do when it wants to get that individual to reveal information, perhaps even about higher ranks in the ministry. shoigu though is not is not being completely sidelined. he has been given a pretty prominent role as head of russia's security council. but in terms of the war in ukraine, i think this is russia really prioritizing the fact that the spending they are doing now according to peskov, up to 6.7% of gdp really needs to be funneled to the right places. and i think this does not spell any commitment from russia to try to find end to this conflict. rosemarie. >> all right, thanks to clear sebastian joining us live. from london, a georgia parliamentary committee has approved the third reading of a controversial foreign agent spill, according to the nation's public broadcaster. >> now the legislation goes to the full parliament for a vote,
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preferred better science, better results were how solomon in new york the partial demolition of baltimore's key bridge is now scheduled for monday afternoon. it was originally set for saturday, but was postponed due to inclement weather the bridge collapsed back in march when a cargo ship rammed a pillar, killing six men who had been repairing potholes on the span. a massive piece of the bridge has been sitting on top of the ship ever since. gloria pazmino reports from the memorial, sayyed while for two days now, we had been expecting the unified command a to begin. there's complicated but careful operation to a demolish parts of the key bridge that have been sitting atop the dali, the ship that crashed into the bridge, bringing it down more than 47 days as ago.
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but we were just told that that the operation has been postponed until, uh, monday afternoon because of the weather. >> we spoke with the us coast guard just to try and get an understanding of just how complicated this operation is and why every environmental factor matters letters, there was an increment weather in the area today through are a few lightening strikes. whenever there's a lightning strike in the area that pushes the clock back. and so that clock just kept getting pushed back and push back and so ultimately we arrived at the decision to postpone until tomorrow a very dynamic situation that we're dealing with here with the key bridge response. it's important to the note that we will absolutely not sacrifice to safety now the unified command and the us army corps of engineers has been looking at and working at the structure for several days now, they have already gone in and carried out a number of precision cuts in those position cuts they have placed a chargers which will be
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wired when this operation can finally take place to help remove pieces of this bridge is going to be a controlled explosion small explosives, which can be seen in this video. >> this video animation provided to us by the us army corps of engineers gives you an idf just exactly how this is going to work. they will put the chargers in, the charges will be wired when they explode. that will move the pieces off to off the ship and into the water. salvage operation can come in and that can begin the process of removing the bridge. so but eventually the dali can be moved off the channel while all of that is taking place. >> the community here in baltimore still very much remembering the victims that were lost. >> and i can get ahead to recovery, right? the key bridge was such a major part of the economy here, a part of the community. and as you can see, you from this memorial that has been taken shape here behind me
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over the last several days. people are still honoring the memory of those who were lost. we have been watching throughout the day as people come in to pay their respects, lay flowers it take pictures and just take in, as i said, the loss of those who were killed during this incident. so if the weather and all the other environmental factors cooperate, this operation now expect it to happen monday afternoon according in baltimore, i'm gloria pazmino, cnn the clock is ticking for the us congress to pass a funding bill for the federal aviation administration. >> the senate passed the reauthorization bill last week, giving the house of representatives until friday to approve it. the bill will renew the agencies federal authority for five years and includes amendments to improve aviation safety and make it easier for customers to get refunds after flights are delayed or canceled. the legislation would authorize more than $105
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billion in funding for the faa pro-palestinian protests are continuing at some colleges across the us as they held commencement ceremonies over the weekend, cnn's local affiliate reports more than two dozen students walked out as actor and comedian jerry seinfeld was about to speak at duke university's commencement ceremony pomona college in southern california moved it so many more than 30 miles away after days of protests on campus, cnn's camila bernal has the details many students and parents frustrated in this case because they have to drive 30 miles and change their plans just to make sure that commencement goes on as plans. >> so instead of it being pomona college, it's going to be here in la at the shrine auditorium. you can see it here behind me. there are security measures already in place. there is a barrier it'll barrier and already security guards, you are not allowed inside the auditorium. if you do not have a ticket, the
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school apologizing and saying not only that this was an inconvenience hints, but also saying that they would provide transportation for the students to get here to los angeles nonetheless, students just disappointed and say they're not happy about this. this whole change. take a listen to what one student said. >> i think it's sad and i think it's it's a really bad wade and your college career and i think it's showing exactly where pomona is headed and some universities like columbia and usc canceling altogether this big traditional commencement ceremony. >> and instead of making other plans citing safety reasons and wanting to avoid protests, we saw students at duke university walking out, right as the commencement speaker was is introduced. that was jerry seinfeld's. >> he was able to give his address as planned with no apparent interruptions. >> and this weekend at different universities we saw students at uc berkeley age chanting and protesting and
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briefly pausing the commencement ceremony. they then walked out of that event and also add virginia commonwealth university at least a dozen students also walking out when the governor was beginning to give his commencement address. so again, that's what a lot of universities are trying to avoid this weekend. and others who have events later on. and of course, this is also caused us a lot of frustration amongst students who had to deal with graduating from high school in the middle of a pandemic. and now again, having to deal with commencement under difficult circumstances or under something that they do not consider a normal commencement ceremony, whom we love her now, cnn, los angeles to stupas me, is a okay after being randomly punched in the face of new york city on witness day, according to a statement from his publicist, police say buscemi it was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for swelling and bleeding in his left eye. the actor is known for his quirky roles and a host
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of shows and movies including reservoir dogs, fargo, and the big lebowski, new york police released a photo of a person they believe is the suspect and asked for the public hicks help identifying the individual. a powerful storm system is rolling through southeastern texas and louisiana today, bringing with it the potential for damaging winds, hail and flooding. more than 14 million people are under flood watches today into tuesday from areas north of houston to the florida panhandle, the national weather service has also issued severe storm and tornado watches across the region. this storm system is expected to move across the gulf states by monday morning. but another round of storms is expected to shift toward north florida and the carolinas by tuesday still to come catastrophic flooding in afghanistan kills hundreds and wipes out entire villages. a look at the destruction are made calls for international
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than 300 people are dead after devastating flash floods in afghanistan over the weekend, according to the world food program, the floods have destroyed entire villages, washing away home there's livestock and access to clean drinking water and food. taliban officials and are calling on the international community for help so let's go to cnn's anna coren. she joins us live from hong kong with the latest does so anna walk, you knew tell us about afghanistan's deadly floods. what more e-learning? >> well, we've got some images. rosemarie coming out of baghlan province in the north of afghanistan. this was the
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hardest hit and we need to warn our audience what they're about to see is really distressing the videos were shared on a journalist group get, to san and it shows the ferocious flash flooding as it hits the village people are yelling run away, run away you can just see that the absolute ferocity now, moments later, there are children that are being pulled from the meds. those three siblings, there, then a toddler they are they are shaking they are the lucky ones because there are so many children who have lost their parents. this girl is saying a model was slipped away in the floods and you can see the bodies that were being prepared for, for burial. this happened, we believe on friday, it happened around the time of friday prayers when men were at the mosque women and children were
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at home. this was unusually heavy rainfall across the north of the country. it is, it's really quiet mountainous up there the taliban claims more than 300 people have been killed over 1,600 injured, thousands of homes these mud homes have been destroyed, but you speak to humanitarian groups, rose rate and they believe that the death toll, in fact, he's, is a lot higher. i mean, the un fears that there are hundreds of people trapped under debris and mud let's have a listen to a father who lost 13 family members on now i have no food, no drinking water, no shelter no blankets, nothing at all. the floods have destroyed everything out of 42 houses, only two or three houses remained. the floods have destroyed the entire valley the telemann, the defective government says it's mobilizing all available resources. it's also calling on the un and humanitarian
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agencies to help but look at groups. rosemary are very concerned about the humanitarian crisis that will undoubtedly follow healthcare facilities, vital infrastructure has just been swept away or it's buried under the mud and the un has said that the country lacks the necessary resources to manage a disaster of this magnitude. and just before i go, afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world speaking to someone from the world food program a little early he said this area, as much of the country, it's poverty stricken. will these people are now destitute? they have nothing, they're trying to get aid and food up to them by donkey. this is how inaccessible some of these areas. but climate change, it's being blamed for this latest natural disaster, the un says there's murray, it's one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change all right, thanks to anna coren bringing
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you the latest there, push eda. >> well, meantime, in brazil, more than 2 million people have been impacted by ongoing floods. >> as another round of heavy rain hits the roof the country's civil defense agency reports nearly 150 people have died, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced from the natural disaster. but first responders are working around the clock to try and locate more than 100 missing people. brazil's government has vowed to rebuild what the floods have district droid, announcing more than 2 billion in emergency spending for the crisis. meteorologists say rein in some areas could last through wedensday two scientists have been named the 2024 world food prize laureates for their work in creating the famous global seed vault. the prize is given to people who worked to ensure global food security and their project fits the bill. the huge volts located inside the arctic circle holds more than 1.2
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million samples of the world's crops, seeds. it's also called the doomsday vault and is meant to be the last line of defense against crop failures, pandemics and climate catastrophes, and carry fall, fallow is one of those scientists who won the world food prize has also the us special envoy for global food security with the us state department. he joins me now from rome. thank you so much for being with us and congratulations. >> well, thank you for having me so creating a global seed vault of this scale, may it seemed like a pretty crazy idea 20 years ago. >> now it's a world food prize winner when this all started, what is it that you were saying that the rest of the world fail to see? >> we didn't set out aiming to protect against doomsday. we weren't thinking about an asteroid hitting are 30 thing
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like that, but we know that collections of seats, collections of diversity, and seat banks around the world are those collections are vulnerable and they're vulnerable to natural catastrophes or sell strife. mechanical failures, et cetera. >> and that's the raw material for plant breeding. >> it's the raw material that allows plant breeders to create new higher yielding disease pest resistant varieties. so we wanted to more or less fail-safe backup for that collection. the went pretty far north to achieve it. >> yeah. of course, the vault holds well over 1 million seeds samples, as we mentioned from nearly every country. and provides genetic protection for thousands of varieties of crops. but how did you collect all these seeds and how does the storage facility actually work? >> well, the storage facility itself is well inside of a mountain in svalbard, which is above mainland norway. it's
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very cold up there as you can imagine, and if you want to protect seeds for the long term, you freeze them. so the natural coal provided a backup for action the mechanical phrasing that we do employ there, which takes the temperature down to -18 celsius so we have protection physical and in terms of the temperature in that location, the seeds themselves are duplicate copies of seeds that are held and seed banks around the world. and today you mentioned there, i think more than 1,280,000 different samples. each sample, by the way, usually contains quite a bit of diversity itself. so if you think about this, we have a about 100 different types of wheat and 150,000 different types. types of rice. and many, many other crops stored out there. so this provides all the options that plant breeders will have in the future to deal with pest and
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diseases, to make yield improvements. and of course two combat climate change. >> yeah, and insects diseases, even politics have of course threaten crops for generations, but crops around the world appear to be in their biggest fight ever against climate change. how has it affected our food supply so far? and what are your main concerns for the future? >> well, climate change obviously is a problem and all farmers know that the climate is changing rapidly. we're particularly concerned i should stay at the department of state with what we're seeing in africa, which is the most food insecure region in the world, already we have stood up a program. there were calling the vision for adapted crops and soils to try to improve fertility and health of african soils, which of course is the foundation for food production and to try to work with plant breeders internationally and in africa to create better
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improved varieties of their traditional and indigenous crops, which are highly nutritious and really needed for giving the micro and macro nutrients to people there, there's a huge problem in africa with childhood stunting. in many countries, 20 to 30% of the children under five stunted. and that means mentally and physically, and it means for the rest of their lives this is a huge initiative we've undertaken with the african union, food and agriculture organization of the un, and private sector and public sector it's what secretary blinken calls and above the ground and below the ground approach, we thank it'll be transformative for african agriculture. and of course, the collections that we have at the global seat fault and it's fall barred will play into that because they'll give us some of the traits, the options if you will needed to help african agriculture. and and frankly, agriculture all over the world adapt to to climate change and
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everything else is going on. >> do you see a doomsday scenario when you have to break the bank bow, we've already had one doomsday scenario, if you will, one of the major seat banks in the world, it was an international seat bank containing really invaluable collections of wheat and barley and other crops, particularly adapted to dry and hot conditions was located just outside of aleppo, syria. >> and so when the war started there, we had to evacuate, if you will, those seats pretty quickly we got them up to the seed vault and just a couple of years ago, they were stored to the institute, which relocated in morocco and lebanon. so that was doomsday for that collection and that's the kind of thing we were really anticipating, if you will, when when we establish the seed vault i should also mention, of
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